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Florida Hospital's parent company is paying $5.4 million to the U.S. government to settle claims that several of its hospitals provided radiation-oncology services to patients with Medicare or military health insurance without direct supervision by qualified health professionals, according to the Department of Justice. "Medicare and TRICARE patients deserve high quality health care," said U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III of the Middle District of Florida, in a statement. "We will not tolerate providers recklessly cutting corners, particularly when furnishing such critical medical services as radiation oncology." In a statement, Florida Hospital officials said...

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